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in addition, president obama, george w. bush, president clinton and president carter will be there. raul castro will be there. will mandela's message of forgiveness resonate? and a time crunch of epic proportions, will the venue be safe? first on the security front. joy worked -- joe worked on sec for pope john paul's funeral. what could go wrong? but a lot could go wrong. >> yeah, south africa's not entirely a safe place. you have a large somali community there, with connections to shabaab. monitoring these will not be easy. you have the problem of a lot of weapons coming through africa, central african republic, libya and the rest of it. so there is the potential danger to secure all these people. >> the u.s. delegation a small part of the crowd. how much control can the u.s. secret service have, realistically? >> well, it's entirely up to the host government. the south african government has hosted u.s. presidential visits in the past. they do a good job. but, again, it's a very difficult situation. you have 100 heads of state means you have 100 armed security details for those h
in addition, president obama, george w. bush, president clinton and president carter will be there. raul castro will be there. will mandela's message of forgiveness resonate? and a time crunch of epic proportions, will the venue be safe? first on the security front. joy worked -- joe worked on sec for pope john paul's funeral. what could go wrong? but a lot could go wrong. >> yeah, south africa's not entirely a safe place. you have a large somali community there, with connections to...
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a note of caution on the same day president obama attended the opening of president george bush's presidential library. >> i think it's pretty obvious that red line has been crossed. >> reporter: john mccain saying it's time to consider military intervention. >> to provide a safe area for the opposition to operate. to establish a no-fly zone and provide weapons to the people in the resistance who we trust. >> reporter: white house officials aren't saying what evidence they're looking for. one thing that is clear here at the white house and on capitol hill, the calls are for an international effort to rid syria of chemical weapons. no one is saying the u.s. should go it alone. erin? >> thanks to you, jim. "outfront" next, brian todd has new details about the mystery man who may have convinced tamerlan tsarnaev to embrace a radical form of islam. plus, the mother of the two bombing suspects. she says the attacks were staged with red paint. this is too bizarre to be believed. and you'll hear it in her own words. we'll be right back. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from na
a note of caution on the same day president obama attended the opening of president george bush's presidential library. >> i think it's pretty obvious that red line has been crossed. >> reporter: john mccain saying it's time to consider military intervention. >> to provide a safe area for the opposition to operate. to establish a no-fly zone and provide weapons to the people in the resistance who we trust. >> reporter: white house officials aren't saying what evidence...
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to president obama after superstorm sandy, too. right? maybe the reality of it is good leaders shine in a time of real crisis. is that something that could describe chris christie? >> i think the governor did a great job and i said it on multiple, multiple occasions. i think he showed leadership and communicated extremely well with the people of the state, but you don't get to wipe the slate clean. what about the 9.6% of the people that are unemployed? our rate is much higher than the states around us, so when everyone's unemployment's going down and ours is staying up to where it was when he came into office three years ago, using this storm is saying everything's okay now, it's not. jobs aren't -- we haven't done anything to improve the economy. >> but you have become famous, senator, for working with chris christie. you're the guy, you and he together, these two people who are supposed to hate each other. he's the guy who says whatever the heck he thinks, you say whatever the heck you think. you guys worked together to take on unions i
to president obama after superstorm sandy, too. right? maybe the reality of it is good leaders shine in a time of real crisis. is that something that could describe chris christie? >> i think the governor did a great job and i said it on multiple, multiple occasions. i think he showed leadership and communicated extremely well with the people of the state, but you don't get to wipe the slate clean. what about the 9.6% of the people that are unemployed? our rate is much higher than the...
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obama care's troubling fix. fix put in quotes. is it possible for the president to recover? i want to know, this whole issue is happening a year earlier in this president's second term than monica lewinsky affair happened for president clinton. >> which drove clinton to 71% approval. >> a fair point. can obama turn this around? >> of course he will. this is the two things media does. we ignore and it then overreact to it. let me read you a quote. this week we can talk about, is the presidency over? now i don't want to say the name but that was a national network news anchor said that on the 11th day of the clinton presidency. clinton went on to serve another 2,900 days. this is what we. do like katrina, my pal and colleague, she had family members who lost everything in katrina. and she said this is disgusting. 1833 people lost their lives in katrina. this is bad, a political problem for the president. a technological problem. i wish there had been more accountability here. i think hhs has screwed this up but you can't compare it to hurricane katrina. >> what do you think? i
obama care's troubling fix. fix put in quotes. is it possible for the president to recover? i want to know, this whole issue is happening a year earlier in this president's second term than monica lewinsky affair happened for president clinton. >> which drove clinton to 71% approval. >> a fair point. can obama turn this around? >> of course he will. this is the two things media does. we ignore and it then overreact to it. let me read you a quote. this week we can talk about,...
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he knows that bush said i looked into putin's eyes and saw his soul. >> and obama saw the bored kid in the back of the classroom or whatever it was. >> the president knows that putin can pull the wool over his eyes and doesn't want to be fooled. what do you think is going on in his head? >> i think the president would much rather not deal with any of this at all. that's what i think. i think we're here where we are in part because the president not for wrong or terrible reasons, the president spent the last two years avoiding this subject hoping that syria would just -- look he's a domestic policy president anyway. and then he looks at impossible problems in the middle east. the middle east which is where hope goes to die. and says, i can't get involved in this. that inattention over the last two years have brought us to this place. but on the iran piece it's very interesting. i think people should be cautious about this. not you. you're very cautious and responsible. >> thank you. >> the president has said very, very clearly, there are only two issues that matter for him from a nation
he knows that bush said i looked into putin's eyes and saw his soul. >> and obama saw the bored kid in the back of the classroom or whatever it was. >> the president knows that putin can pull the wool over his eyes and doesn't want to be fooled. what do you think is going on in his head? >> i think the president would much rather not deal with any of this at all. that's what i think. i think we're here where we are in part because the president not for wrong or terrible...
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gates, who served under presidents bush and obama also said the middle east is a powder keg and to use force is throwing gasoline on the fire. >>> president obama sent a letter to iranian president that according to the white house says, and i'll quote, the u.s. is ready to resolve the nuclear issue in a way that allows iran to demonstrate its nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes. now, this is a dream come true for iran which has insisted the united states allow a nuclear program. in an interview tonight with ann curry of nbc nightly news, he said iran would never develop nuclear weapons under any circumstances and that he has, quote, full authority to make a deal with the west. he also said that sounds pretty definitive, but iran has said this again and again. and some remain dubious. for example, expert kenneth katzman tells us iran's supreme leader will almost certainly veto any deal if he thinks it rules out the option of iran developing a nuclear weapon in the future. >>> cnn has obtained diary excerpts belonging to jennifer alphonso. she's the woman whose death wa
gates, who served under presidents bush and obama also said the middle east is a powder keg and to use force is throwing gasoline on the fire. >>> president obama sent a letter to iranian president that according to the white house says, and i'll quote, the u.s. is ready to resolve the nuclear issue in a way that allows iran to demonstrate its nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes. now, this is a dream come true for iran which has insisted the united states allow a...
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bush and now president obama. and we talked about another major transparency controversy engulfing the obama administration that you have to see to believe. you just wrote a new article about a fight going on between the white house and the journalists like yourself who cover it about access to photographers. in a letter to the white house spokesperson, jay carny, signed by all major news outlets including cnn, the letter says as surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist's camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of the branch of government. you are in if he can readministration independent photo journalism with visual press releases. the one that gives the image that they really want out there as opposed to a different image. the first one on the left. we'll show the press version. on the right, the white house photo before the 50th anniversary of martin luther king junior's i have a dream speech at the lincoln memorial. obviously the mone
bush and now president obama. and we talked about another major transparency controversy engulfing the obama administration that you have to see to believe. you just wrote a new article about a fight going on between the white house and the journalists like yourself who cover it about access to photographers. in a letter to the white house spokesperson, jay carny, signed by all major news outlets including cnn, the letter says as surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist's camera...
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bush, 30% of his ambassadors, appointments, were political. and obama's the same rate, 30%. we pick on obama, but president bush did the same thing. >> every president since the 1960s has maintained a ratio of about 70% of the ambassadors being career foreign service officers and about 30% being political appointees. there are some nations in the world that really do want to have the president's best friend as an kbambassador. japan jumps right out near the top. in fact, the holy see, the vatican, every ambassador that has served in the vatican has been a political appointee. >> respectfully, there's also been a change in the foreign service officer's corps, because we didn't have the problem with tenure that we have now. right now, the kind of people that go to the foreign service have many other attractive opportunities. and seeing to it that they have a path forward to get to those most desirable jobs is more important now than it would have been 20 years ago, when people tended to have very long tenures in the foreign service. think about it this way. when you join the f
bush, 30% of his ambassadors, appointments, were political. and obama's the same rate, 30%. we pick on obama, but president bush did the same thing. >> every president since the 1960s has maintained a ratio of about 70% of the ambassadors being career foreign service officers and about 30% being political appointees. there are some nations in the world that really do want to have the president's best friend as an kbambassador. japan jumps right out near the top. in fact, the holy see, the...
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bush. now to tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world. we start tonight in china where we're learning more about the newborn baby that was rescued alive from a sewer pipe. police finally found and spoken to the baby's mother. david mckenzie is in beijing. i asked if police plan on pressing charges. >> jake, it's an extraordinary story that gripped the world's attention. this young boy now recovering in the hospital in eastern china, amazing when you consider this. look, at these disturbing images. the boy was pulled out of a sewage pipe earlier this week, hacking at that pipe that had to be taken to a hospital and carefully pried open. amazing that he survived. but doctors say that he will be okay and make a full recovery. now questions about the mother. it's unclear exactly what happened. but police say that she's deeply regretful and they say they won't press charges at this stage saying that it might be just an awful accident. but the main story here is the survival of this young child who's managed to survive against all odds. jake? >
bush. now to tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world. we start tonight in china where we're learning more about the newborn baby that was rescued alive from a sewer pipe. police finally found and spoken to the baby's mother. david mckenzie is in beijing. i asked if police plan on pressing charges. >> jake, it's an extraordinary story that gripped the world's attention. this young boy now recovering in the hospital in eastern china, amazing when you...
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look, president obama has been president for five years. we have put on the table that iran is not allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. that is a point of u.s. policy. it has been bipartisan. the problem here is that this sanction, this deal sanctions iran, basically, as a nuclear power. what my question for rosa would be, what was the all-fired hurry? i mean, the sanctions were working. iran was increasingly desperate. now all of a sudden, the pressure is off iran, and yet, their commitment is not only not verifiable, but it's not even a commitment to give everything that the u.n. resolutions demanded. and that's a huge problem. >> i'm curious on that point. because i was in iran for the elections this summer. there's no question the sanctions were working. food prices had doubled. it's always been clear to me a lot of countries want to circumvent the sanctions. we've done stories about people circumventing the sanctions. it takes years to get those things in place. and in six months we're going to put them back in place. it doesn't seem t
look, president obama has been president for five years. we have put on the table that iran is not allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. that is a point of u.s. policy. it has been bipartisan. the problem here is that this sanction, this deal sanctions iran, basically, as a nuclear power. what my question for rosa would be, what was the all-fired hurry? i mean, the sanctions were working. iran was increasingly desperate. now all of a sudden, the pressure is off iran, and yet, their commitment is...
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is the country interested and ready for another bush? >> every governor sure has thought of being president. after all, the state governments are microcosms of the federal government. but at this point in time, look, statistics, they're out there during barack obama's re-election. a lot of the country still blames president george w. bush for the state of the economy. i disagree with that. i think those people don't know what they're talking about. however, facts are facts and it's a political reality, fair or unfair. at this point, i think the bush name carries with it a huge amount of clout, can raise money, obviously he was governor of a big state like florida. he's got a keen eye on the latino community, he can help bridge gaps for the republican party. but at this point, i just don't think presidency -- excuse me, he makes a wonderful candidate. i just don't know that he's the best candidate in 2016. >> let's talk about in the last 24 hours, bush has struggled to nail down his position on immigration. in his new book, he and his co-
is the country interested and ready for another bush? >> every governor sure has thought of being president. after all, the state governments are microcosms of the federal government. but at this point in time, look, statistics, they're out there during barack obama's re-election. a lot of the country still blames president george w. bush for the state of the economy. i disagree with that. i think those people don't know what they're talking about. however, facts are facts and it's a...
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gates who served under presidents bush and obama says the middle east is a powder keg and using force in the way the president had originally suggested would have thrown gasoline on the fire. >>> president obama meantime has sent a letter to iranian president hassan rohani that according to the white house says "the u.s. is ready to resolve the nuclear issue in a way that allows iran to demonstrate its nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes." now, this is significant because many of the u.s. have said they have to get rid of the nuclear program all together. it's a dream come true for iran which has insisted the u.s. allow a nuclear program. in an interview tonight with ann curry of nbc news, rohani spoke out >> translator: we have time and again said that under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. nor will we ever. >> rohani also said he has the full authority to make a nuclear deal with the west. it sounds definitive. but as he said, iran has said this again and again and many remain dubious. expert ken net katzman
gates who served under presidents bush and obama says the middle east is a powder keg and using force in the way the president had originally suggested would have thrown gasoline on the fire. >>> president obama meantime has sent a letter to iranian president hassan rohani that according to the white house says "the u.s. is ready to resolve the nuclear issue in a way that allows iran to demonstrate its nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes." now, this is...
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bush owanted the system to protect. president obama said he didn't want to do that. now authorized it. we have an expanded missile defense system done in 2017. as you know, the former defense secretary robert gaets said north korea would have a missile capable of striking the west coast of the united states a year before the missile defense would be ready. did president obama wait too long? you were saying here saying, look, i'd glad he sent the b-2s and f-22s. did he blow it on the missile defense? >> i think he did. that was a serious mistake. sort of an ideological decision i think he made that it's something to not be pursued and cut it short much too quickly and playing catch up. the recent actions i'm supporting. i strongly believe that they made a mistake in cutting that system short several years ago. if they had been kept in place, if the program is allowed to go forward, we would be in a much better position today. >> what is our position in terms of what would cause the united states to act? yesterday jay carney said the question of a preemptive question i
bush owanted the system to protect. president obama said he didn't want to do that. now authorized it. we have an expanded missile defense system done in 2017. as you know, the former defense secretary robert gaets said north korea would have a missile capable of striking the west coast of the united states a year before the missile defense would be ready. did president obama wait too long? you were saying here saying, look, i'd glad he sent the b-2s and f-22s. did he blow it on the missile...
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you see this in the bush administration, you see it in the obama administration as well. you have very aggressive leak prosecutions in the national security space, including, for example, an nsa agent, thomas drake, who leaked to a baltimore sun reporter that you had bloated budgets in the nsa. now he's facing potentially a stiff prison term. when you talk about aggressive treatment towards whistleblowers in national security, you are ahe not just seeing it on benghazi. are you seeing it elsewhere as well. >> here we are eight months since the attack on the consulate in benghazi, as we know. yet the administration had an indication within 24 hours of who was responsible for the attack from intercepted cell phone calls that they had. we now know that. at this point, you don't have people in jail or anyone being held accountable and this does seem absurd. the ambassador was killed, other americans were killed, and the group that the cia intercepted celebrating the attack has actually subsequently been paid to provide security in benghazi. it is fair, right, to have deep fru
you see this in the bush administration, you see it in the obama administration as well. you have very aggressive leak prosecutions in the national security space, including, for example, an nsa agent, thomas drake, who leaked to a baltimore sun reporter that you had bloated budgets in the nsa. now he's facing potentially a stiff prison term. when you talk about aggressive treatment towards whistleblowers in national security, you are ahe not just seeing it on benghazi. are you seeing it...
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and then george bush, after they got a nuclear weapon, taking the country off the terror sponsor list and giving them more food aid. and she writes, mr. obama should ignore the appeasement advice and relenting now and giving kim now will invite more dangerous behavior as it has in the past. she acknowledges that and you can really get to the brink. is she right? there should be no concessions. >> you have to be careful with that. obviously, diplomacy involves concessions and doing things that may not be palatable to a domestic political constituency. but the problem we have here is that north korea is playing both to the international constituency, us and the other parts of the six power agreement with north korea, you know, the nuclear piece that we're dealing with there. but we're also having a domestic constituency there. and that is whether kim jong-un is able to maintain his power. what he is trying to do is really create a situation where he solidifies the power base within the military and shows that he is strong against the united states. and, of course, those goals on the nor
and then george bush, after they got a nuclear weapon, taking the country off the terror sponsor list and giving them more food aid. and she writes, mr. obama should ignore the appeasement advice and relenting now and giving kim now will invite more dangerous behavior as it has in the past. she acknowledges that and you can really get to the brink. is she right? there should be no concessions. >> you have to be careful with that. obviously, diplomacy involves concessions and doing things...
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administration and offers an equally scathing evaluation of president obama. so a liberal man slammed a democratic president. i know you've called the cnn film an in kind donation to the campaign. how do you know this documentary by cnn films might not be really nasty about hillary and therefore helpful for the rnc in. >> actually, i don't think it matters. i don't think it matters if it is really negative or positive. i think presidential elections are largely elections that go to the point of popularity. i think it is a personality that's being built. if hillary clinton runs, chit looks like she is gearing up to, then she will just build up her campaign. use the fact news networks are building up her name. even if it is negative. unless you're an idiot like anthony weiner, generally, i will tell you, generally, erin, these are positive developments for candidates. it builds up that cult of personality and cnn is going to play a role in it. i don't think you should. i don't think your network should be playing a role in building up hillary clinton. if hillary
administration and offers an equally scathing evaluation of president obama. so a liberal man slammed a democratic president. i know you've called the cnn film an in kind donation to the campaign. how do you know this documentary by cnn films might not be really nasty about hillary and therefore helpful for the rnc in. >> actually, i don't think it matters. i don't think it matters if it is really negative or positive. i think presidential elections are largely elections that go to the...